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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Another former list member sent SW10.2 so I ought to attempt to compile my
> > own mii.o using the 2.4.31 kernel source which I hope is on CD-1.
> > Can I compile just that one module rather than make zImage make modules,
> > using David's config file with mii set to module?
>
> I don't think you can, unless you know how to fix the makefile so that
> it will let you 'make module.o'. You might want to try building your
> own 2.4 kernel and modules, with all the networking options turned
> on. I may have left something out that mii requires.
>
> David

I am working on the wireless ethernet laptop card - WPC11 V.4.
Linksys says it is only supported for Windows.
It has a Realtek RTL8180 chip but the Realtek links for three linux source 
code packages (and all the Windows packages) seem to be unavailable 
(broken?).  They specified which gcc you needed for each linux package: 
2.4.18 needs gcc 2.96, 2.4.20 2.3.3 (or 2.3.2?) - I presume 2.4.31 with 
whatever SW91 came with should also work.

I found open source (alpha and pre-alpha) code for this chip (96K package) 
but it needs 2.4 or 2.6 kernel according to the Makefile and wants a 
/lib/modules/2.4.31/build/.config file.

You are just supposed to type 'make' from the source code directory where 
the Makefile is, but it looks for the above elsewhere.

Do I need to put the full kernel source code into /build or just the 
kernel headers, to make this separate kernel module for the card?
Was I supposed to put kernel source code under /build too?  (For 2.2.16 I 
put it into /kernelcompile and it worked fine there).

Do I need to make the .config file somehow, or use the one from building 
the kernel itself?

I will post the module if it works with 2.4.31, as it is generic to 
several makers' cards that use the same chip, all 'recent' (since 2001).

Sindi